Help, I'm having major connection problems.

[Davidia]

I posted this at the EA site, but I'd figure I'd ask for additional help here.

Everytime I click on a game it says my ping is 9999 (and I have cable). And if I try to join, after the map loads, and after I hit start, it gives me the connection problem message and signs me right off. This has been happening since I got it on day 1.

I think it's my firewall. But I'm not to knowledgable on them. I have norton personal firewall. I tried adding the port 14567 (the port needed apparently) to the BF1942.exe file in Norton, but I also have to add the range, but I can only add the range or the single port alone, I can't have them on there at the same time. I tried all my other mutliplayer games and they work fine and dandy.

I have an Nvidia Geforce 3 ti200, 256 DDR Ram, and XP. Any help would be great.

 

[Wargasm]

problem mightbe the build in firewall in windows xp . might wanna disable that one .
on the otherhand it is weird u can connect .
i mean if a firewall is blocking you cannot even get in .
is this full retail and did you patch ??

 

[Davidia]

Yup

I patched. I got the retail version. I might have a built in XP firewall but I don't know where to find it if I do.

 

[Syrinis]

You can find the firewall setting by going into your Network Places,

Click View Network Connections on the left hand side. Your connections will come up - right click to get properties. Look at the advanced tab - and see if your firewall is set. You can change the setting here.

 

[Davidia]

Hrm. Much thanks to you. I saw that it was checked and I got rid of it, so now Mr. Norton is my only firewall. I'm gonna try it again later and if I have any more problems I'll come back for more help if you don't mind.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Davidia]

I did that thing you suggested and it still didn't work. I have 256 DDR Ram....do I need more?

 

[Dabom]

Did you install a no-CD crack?

 

[Davidia]

Nope.

 

[Dabom]

Quite a few people are having this problem and there's no cure-all way known to fix it.

You can try disabling Norton's firewall and check this thread out in the meantime: http://www.the-group.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7347

 

[Davidia]

Thanks, but I'm gonna try uninstalling my firewall first then if that doesn't work I'll reinstall my firewall and try what that thread suggested.